11 – AB 620 – Equality and Equal Access in Higher Education

Year: 2011

Category: Educational, Social/Political

Bill Description:

This bill would request the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the University of California, and the governing board of each community college district to adopt and publish policies on harassment, intimidation, and bullying to be included within the rules of student conduct governing their respective segments of public postsecondary education.

11 – AB 9 – Seth’s Law

Year: 2011

Category: Educational, Social/Political

Bill Description:

This bill would require the policy adopted by the local educational agencies to prohibit discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived characteristics. The bill also would require the process for receiving and investigating complaints to include complaints of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived characteristics, as specified, and to include a requirement that school personnel who witness such acts take immediate steps to intervene when safe to do so, a timeline to investigate and resolve complaints, and an appeal process.

10 – AB 2055 – Unemployment Benefits Equality

Year: 2010

Category: Workplace, Family

Bill Description:

Specify that, for purposes of those provisions governing eligibility for unemployment benefits, “domestic partner” also includes a person to whom domestic partnership, as described, is imminent.

10 – SJR 9 – Support of the Military Readiness Enhancement Act

Year: 2010

Category: Workplace, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Memorialize Congress and the President of the United States to repeal the U.S. military’s discriminatory “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

10 – AB 2199 – Repeal of Discriminatory Code

Year: 2010

Category: Social/Political, Family

Bill Description:

Repeal section of the California Welfare and Institutions code that instructs the State Department of Mental Health to conduct research into the “causes and cures of homosexuality.”

10 – AB 1878 – Data Inclusion Act

Year: 2010

Category: Social/Political, Family

Bill Description:

Require the state to add questions about sexual orientation, gender identity and domestic partnership status in the voluntary demographic section of California’s government forms.

10 – AB 633 – LGBT Prisoner Safety Act

Year: 2010

Category: Social/Political

Bill Description:

Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to classify inmates and wards in order to prevent inmate and ward sexual violence and to promote inmate and ward safety, as specified. Existing law also requires the department to consider specified risk factors when classifying and housing inmates. This bill would instead require the department to classify inmates and wards in order to prevent violence and would revise the risk factors, as specified, for assessing inmates or wards for risk of victimization or risk of being abusive, providing different factors based on whether the inmate or ward is being assessed for risk of victimization or of abusive behavior, and based on whether the inmate or ward is in a facility for male or female inmates.

10 – AB 1680 – Hate Crimes Protection Act

Year: 2010

Category: Social/Political

Bill Description:

Prohibit contracts from requiring a person to waive their legal rights and procedures under the civil rights laws dealing with bias-motivated violence and hate crimes.

10 – SJR 28 – 2020 Census Inclusion Resolution

Year: 2010

Category: Social/Political, Family

Bill Description:

This measure would urge the Congress, the President of the United States, and the Secretary of Commerce to enact legislation or adopt policies to have the 2020 Census and other surveys gather data on sexual orientation and gender identity.

10 – SR 51 – Uganda’s Criminalization of LGBT People

Year: 2010

Category: Social/Political

Bill Description:

SR 51 urges the U.S. government to intensify its efforts to support the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide